THE CANTERBURY STORM
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WEATHER BITTERLY COLD
CHKkSTCII URL H. August . There is no improvement in the w i ther, which is bitterly cold.
Ihe gale is still raging, but there litis not been quite so much rain to-dnv Snow, up to three feet m places, is reported from the country district, and heavy mortality among newly h in lnmh.s is anticipated. No work has been done on the waterfront at Lyttelton for two days. .Bower is now available from l.akn Coleridge, and the railway traffic is hack to normal. The ferry steamers are making fair time from Wellington, considering the conditions they have to face. It is not yet known whether the Trots will lie postponed to-morrow. QT AdO RAINFALL. DUNEDIN. August 8. After heavy rain, the Outram-Mos-giel service was interrupted yesterday afternoon, there being nineteen inches of water on the railway in one section. Tlit)lS I’OSTI’ONKI) TILL WFDNKSDAY. SNOW IN CHRISTCHURCH. CMIHSTCHI’HC’II. Aug. 10. The opening ol the Metropolitan Trots was again postponed till Wednesday. owing to the rain, the second day being Friday and the concluding day next Monday. Snow fell in the city and suburbs last evening, and there was a thiek coating at 7 a.ln. hut a thaw* followed.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1925, Page 2
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207THE CANTERBURY STORM Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1925, Page 2
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